Camp Counsellors
Most camps are in beautiful rural areas where campers join activities, sports, games and avoiding poison ivy in the great outdoors. Energetic adults supervise campers and other energetic adults work behind-the-scenes and all are placed at a camp ... [... more]
Getaway |
Gloria Jahoda
Insightful, rarely told history of Indian courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps ... [... more]
Random House |
Harry Harrison
In England, Irish-born citizens are being herded into prison camps. On the high seas, a furious British Navy is seizing American cargo ships bound for Europe. And on the Thames, a new weapon of unparalleled ... [... more]
Random House |
Anne Applebaum
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst ... [... more]
Random House |
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Buczacz, Galicia, at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was incarcerated between 1941 and 1945 in Buchenwald and Mauthausen and other concentration camps. In 1946 ... [... more]
Random House |
Mini Grey
Mini was born in the front seat of a mini-car in an icy car-park in South Wales. She has two sisters and one brother, and grew up in a village in Buckinghamshire with plenty of places to make camps, climb trees and ... [... more]
Random House |
Stefan Maechler
This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil. ... [... more]
Random House |
Barbara Bray
Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as ... [... more]
Random House |
Elaina Erika Davis
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination- ... [... more]
Random House |
Bathurst Burr
Generally found growing in full sun on grazing land, roadsides or waste ground, preferring moist soil. Prefers disturbed sites with fertile soils such as stock camps or riverbanks. Burrs are an important cause of ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination- ... [... more]
Random House |
Jean Genet
Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as ... [... more]
Random House |
